U+C72A "윪" Hangul Syllable Yulm Unicode Character

Unicode Version 17.0

U+C72A "윪" Hangul Syllable Yulm is a precomposed syllable from the modern Hangul script used for writing the Korean language. It represents the phonetic sound "yulm" and is formed by combining the initial consonant ㅇ (a silent placeholder), the medial vowel ㅠ (yu), and the final consonant cluster ㄻ (lm). Although this specific syllable is part of the mathematically filled character block in Unicode, it is rarely used in everyday Korean text and appears primarily in specialized linguistic or phonetic transcription contexts rather than in common vocabulary.

General Properties

Code Point U+C72A
Version Added 2.0
Name Hangul Syllable Yulm
Block Hangul Syllables
General Category Other Letter
Canonical Combining Class Not Reordered
Bidirectional Class Left To Right
Decomposition Type Canonical
Decomposition Mapping "유" U+C720 Hangul Syllable Yu
"ᆱ" U+11B1 Hangul Jongseong Rieul-Mieum

Encodings

HTML Decimal Encoding 윪
HTML Hex Encoding 윪
UTF-8 Encoding 0xEC 0x9C 0xAA
UTF-16 Encoding 0xC72A
UTF-32 Encoding 0x0000C72A
C/C++/Java Escape \uc72a

Unicode Properties

NFC Quick Check Yes
NFKC Quick Check Yes
Numeric Type None
Numeric Value NaN
Line Break Hangul LVT Syllable
East Asian Width Wide
Script Hangul
Script Extensions Hangul
Hangul Syllable Type LVT Syllable
Indic Syllabic Category Other
ID Start Yes
XID Start Yes
ID Continue Yes
XID Continue Yes
Alphabetic Yes
Vertical Orientation Upright
Grapheme Base Yes
Grapheme Cluster Break Hangul Syllable Type=LVT
Word Break Alphabetic letter
Sentence Break OLetter